I dunno. The thief knows where the guy lives, the guy confronted said thief alone with a hammer, AND gave him money? What kind of bizarro approach is that?

Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. He gave someone who stole his phone and used it to go on dating sites his address? And some money? Gee, he just happens to be a musician. Someone might have wanted some attention and cooked up a crackpot story about how clever and awesome he is. Just a hunch.

I dunno. The thief knows where the guy lives, the guy confronted said thief alone with a hammer, AND gave him money? What kind of bizarro approach is that?

Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. He gave someone who stole his phone and used it to go on dating sites his address? And some money? Gee, he just happens to be a musician. Someone might have wanted some attention and cooked up a crackpot story about how clever and awesome he is. Just a hunch.

Apparently he's in a ska band. Which is weird because he's not wearing a fedora.

I dunno. The thief knows where the guy lives, the guy confronted said thief alone with a hammer, AND gave him money? What kind of bizarro approach is that?

Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. He gave someone who stole his phone and used it to go on dating sites his address? And some money? Gee, he just happens to be a musician. Someone might have wanted some attention and cooked up a crackpot story about how clever and awesome he is. Just a hunch.

Yup. Sounds all kinds of fishy. At the very least I would have had the cops there. And I wouldn't have given the guy my address.

Well, the guy could have just called the cops, cause otherwise this story sounds a little too made up.

He left the phone in the back up the cab, no password on it, his fault. Typical of 90% of iphone users.

Typical manager escalation I get every day.me "Hello this is the Flatline, a manager at the largest carrier with iphones, how can I help?"them "I left my iphone in a cab, and I went to Apple and they said you have to track it down for me."me "Did you install the free application that Apple provides to allow for tracking of the device?"them "Why didn't you tell me about that when I bought the phone?"me "Sorry, but since the app is not installed you cannot track it"them "well then you need to provide me with a new phone because when I purchased the phone at the Apple Store, the carrier didnt tell me about it" Seriously someone told me that."me" Sorry, not our responsibility, though I do see in the notes here that you refused insurance and we gave you an early upgrade 6 months ago because you dropped your phone in the toilet"them " you guys are aholes"

theflatline:Well, the guy could have just called the cops, cause otherwise this story sounds a little too made up.

Yes because the cops wouldn't just tell him to come down to the station, fill out a report and call his insurance company, they would put their finest detectives on the case and try really, really hard to solve the crime.

i use okcupid too, and i'm pretty lonely and desperate for attention. but if some cleavage-displaying chick randomly messaged me with stuff like "wanna meet?" there is no way i would go along with that. hot women don't have to ask random people for dates, unless they're planning to rob and/or murder them.

I've seen this story floating around the last couple of days but didn't bother reading it.Every headline made it out as though the dude "stole" the iPhone and that the "thief" had been tricked.The dude didn't steal anything. He found it in a taxi cab the the douche left it in after being out on New Years eve. Probably drunk at the time.Now I'm not saying its proper just to take something that doesn't belong to you, its not. And yes, it is the right thing to do to try and find the owner of lost property.But the dude didn't steal it, he found it, in a cab, after New Years eve, in New York city.An upstanding citizen he may not be. But he's not a thief.

Wardrobe_Malfunction:Yes because the cops wouldn't just tell him to come down to the station, fill out a report and call his insurance company, they would put their finest detectives on the case and try really, really hard to solve the crime.

They got them working in shifts! Although I wouldn't hold out hope for the Creedence.

olddinosaur:My new laptop has a login feature: You have to enter the password every time you use it.

You could still steal it, but it would be useless to you.

Shouldn't an iPhone have the same feature?

If it's a windows laptop the password can be removed in about 45 seconds with the right boot CD. If the thief doesn't want your collections of cat pictures and transformer porn, he can just format the laptop and reinstall the OS. Passwords are like locks in that they only stop honest people. Anyone who really wants in will get in.